Journal Metrics

Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.021ℹSource Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP):2014: 1.021SNIP measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field.

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.616ℹ

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR):2014: 0.616SJR is a prestige metric based on the idea that not all citations are the same. SJR uses a similar algorithm as the Google page rank; it provides a quantitative and a qualitative measure of the journal’s impact.

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Founded in 1975, the Journal of Historical Geography marks its fortieth birthday this year. While more substantial evaluations of the changing nature of the sub-discipline and its intra- and inter-disciplinary connections might best wait another decade, we did want to mark this significant milestone.

The ‘Historical Geography at Large’ section of the Journal of Historical Geography was initiated in 2010. It was originally intended to provide a space for reflection on what was called ‘public historical geography’ (after the model of public history), as represented for example in the work of historical geographers in the fields of exhibition-making, public art, museum curatorship, film and digital media. The intention was not simply to promote work designed for wider than academic audiences, important though that may be: it was also to encourage greater reflection on the possibility of what were described in the founding editorial as ‘more dialogic and more participatory models of knowledge creation’. Drawing explicitly on parallel developments in the field of history, we hoped to promote further dialogue between academic researchers and practitioners engaged in making historical geography beyond the academy.